The Struggles with Learning New Things

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Well, as the title says, there are struggles with learning new things. Here's how this all began..

 

Over the past 3 years I've worked with a group to re-encode and release anime, the goal was quality but small sizes, which we achieve. They used a craptastic shared hosting service called "ipage.com". When it takes you 15s to 60s to login to wordpress admin panel, you know you've got a problem. When you open the php.ini for your shared hosting package, and see the "max_memory_limit" set to 32, it scares you a little.

 

A week ago I purchased a vps through blazingfast.io, at first i struggled with the AMP part of LAMP. Only to find out that the specific iso I chose, came pre-installed with AMP, you just needed to update first for it to work. (3 days to figure that out.) After that, I successfully backed up, and moved the site. Well, phpmyadmin had a fit with the size of the database. I was thinking 4.5mb, not bad for 5 years of operations or so I thought. 200k items in the database table, took a few hours to handle that. Figuring out that, took my friend and I several hours. He eventually figured out that it was actually importing, but slowly. 500 items per 5 minutes or so. After that was finished, I uploaded the remaining php files and the core of the site.

 

Well, the website worked. I could login, move around, a few plugins needed updating, so I tried too. NOPE! Didn't work. Spent a few hours Googling, tried the suggestions of changing permissions to 0755 or 0777, none of that worked. Now you web gurus are thinking "WTF?! 777?! ARE YOU INSANE?!", don't worry, I changed those back after they didn't work for me. I found a website that explained exactly what was happening, root had ownership of my www folder. My apache "nobody" account didn't. I fixed several problems by chowning my ownership to my Apache2 daemon.

 

I learned a lot from this. It took me two weeks of messing around with things to get it to work, and in that time, I learned that grep is my friend and that ownership is 9/10ths of the law :p Oh and I hate vi, with a passion.

 

Moral of the Story: No matter how long it takes you, or how much you struggle, knowing you did your best and you succeeded makes the time and struggle look like nothing.

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5 minutes ago, sinetheo said:

It could be worse. You could always use Emacs :woot:

 

... but in all seriousness have you tried the MS Code editor? It is available for Linux as well. I use it on Windows

Eh, I'm not fond of it. I use brackets for web development. The live preview feature is pretty sweet.

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